Sébastien-Roch Nicolas (Nicolas Chamfort) Quotes
Someone has said that to plagiarise from the ancients is to play the pirate beyond the Equator, but that to steal from the moderns is to pick pockets at street corners.
Sébastien-Roch Nicolas
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